Security Assistance Coordinator; Mid-Level

Security Assistance Coordinator (Mid-Level)

Integrated Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), a U.S. based international development consulting company established in 1987, has worked in over 100 countries and implemented over 300 projects. IBTCI serves government agencies, private sector companies, and several donor agencies. IBTCI specializes in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) and institutional support across many areas and sectors including, but not limited to, conflict and crisis, democracy and governance, agriculture, economic growth, food security, education, environment, and global health.

Assignment

Title:

Security Assistance Coordinator (Mid-Level)

Department/

Location:

Washington, DC

Technical Point of Contact: Project Director

Type: Full-time

Overview: IBTCI is seeking a Security Assistance Coordinator to support a proposed task order aimed at enhancing the Office of Security Assistance (PM/SA)’s capacity to provide effective program management, design, monitoring and security assistance oversight. PM/SA oversees U.S. foreign assistance programs aimed at building partner military capacity to advance U.S. foreign policy. The Office currently manages three security assistance accounts:
Foreign Military Financing (FMF), International Military Education and Training (IMET), and the National Security Engagement Account (NSEA) (formerly Peacekeeping Operations (PKO)). Additionally, the Office provides concurrence authority for the U.S. Department of War (DOW)’s security assistance programs under U.S.C. Title 10 (“Title 10 programs”). The PM Bureau’s need to provide consistent oversight of U.S. security assistance programs is vital. In a context of scarce resources, the need to demonstrate clear alignment with U.S. Foreign policy through effective program management is paramount.

General

Duties and Responsibilities:

Security Assistance Coordinators are responsible for security assistance programming. A distinction between the junior-level and mid-level Coordinators may include the size of the assigned portfolio or the extent of responsibility of that portfolio (exercising a lead role vice a supporting or assisting role). Coordinators shall be responsible for reviewing and coordinating various funding case development documents (LOR, LOA, etc.), tracking security assistance expenditure data, providing data for congressional briefs and reports, coordinating within PM, other State bureaus, and the Department of War) on the obligation, expenditure and management of the security assistance programs, and other documents necessary to the effective management of the security assistance accounts.

This may include drafting funding memos (allocations, allotments, apportionments, reclassifications, congressional notifications, etc.), tracking obligation and expenditure data, providing data for briefings and Congressional reports, drafting documents to obligate funds, coordinating within PM and U.S. Department of State regional bureaus and the Department of War, and other regional or functional bureaus as needed on the obligation, expenditure and management of account programs, and other documents necessary to the effective management of their portfolio.

Coordinators shall also liaison with counterparts at State (relevant regional bureaus, EX, BP, OMB, L and DSCA) and shall support PM/SA participation in relevant Financial Management Reviews and other meetings. If assigned to a portfolio that handles Title 10 coordination, these Coordinators would manage U.S. Department of State concurrence with over $3 billion in U.S. Department of War (DOW) security cooperation authorities (e.g., International Security Cooperation Program-funded authorities sections 332, 333, and 1263 and other temporary authorities) requiring signoff from senior Department of State leadership.

Security Assistance Coordinators shall:

• Provide program analysis and develop and coordinate both functional subject matter and geographic area for security assistance accounts.
• Develop program options, negotiate, and integrate contributions from various Departmental offices as well as other USG agencies.
• Perform various…